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Remnants of his group-though scattered-still exist. Though the flames of his budding revolution were extinguished, the scars left in its wake are still felt across Japan. Five years have passed since Kenshin Himura stopped the uprising of Makoto Shishio.

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Note that the main designer at the time who became the 'father' of the New Microman and MicroChange series was Hideaki Yoke, who became one of the main people behind Transformers in Japan and is still involved with the production to this day (last I heard at least).It is the 16th year of the Meiji era. So this capsule is sort of a not-so-missing link between Microman and Diaclone. This downscaling of Microman also was used in the Death King toy and was probably leading into a new 'mini-Microman' line that evolved instead into 'Inchman', which became the separate series Diaclone the following year. The tiny figure in the 'launch' tube also provides a link to the Rescue Servo Machine toys that were in a smaller, similar scale. At the top left there is a dome that is probably meant to evoke the Rescue Secret Base set, so it helped promote that playset. The capsule design is meant to do a couple of things. That said, they are nice enough, if a bit more generic looking, and the capsules are kind of neat. There's some fan speculation (unconfirmed-I think it was from 's Paul Lorphanpaibul) that they represent the ranks of humans that were micronized by Alpha H7 in one of the Acroyear attacks and were recruited as Micromen (if we take the manga storyline as canon). They aren't as well-favored by original fans because they are a lot more generic than the earlier series and were clearly a case of Takara cutting costs near the end of the first series (New Microman in 1980 would just do recolors of the existing figures from the last six years for the most part, not counting the over-sized MicroBorg toys), and shifted their focus more to the robots as their new figures/toys) and are largely seen more as 'army builder' figures than the rest. :) The Rescue Micromen were the last sets of new sculpts of figures in this format Takara made, and even then they shared the same legs, arms and pelvis. I actually gave these sets a miss as Romando had done reissue Rescues previously and I'm not a completist. The Reissue line released three sets each consisting of the three figures and a bonus fourth character (M255 Steve, M256 Vergil, M257 Charles). Originally released in 1979, the Rescue Team consisted of three characters - M251 Robin, M252 William and M253 Richard. One of these reissues was the Microman Rescue Team. The first series of Microman ran from 1974-1984 and featured many different styles of characters, vehicles and accessories.ĭue to demand and nostalgia, in 1999 Takara launched the Reissue Microman series, with re-releases of classic figures and some new designs based on unproduced or rare figures. But it is about Microman, which was the original name for Micronauts in Japan. Kid, if you are ever reading this, I owe you a Mego Micronauts Time Traveler figure. It's not much of a confession, but I still feel bad about it, and I still don't collect Microman.

I don't know that i've ever told this story. Time and time again memories are brought back through these pieces of plastic. Every time I come across one I am instantly transported back to 1979, and the guilt of a child comes back to me as if it were yesterday.

Since that point, I've never collected Micronauts or Microman.

I never gave it back, and the kid never knew it was me. That was probably my opportunity to make amends but I was too scared that I was going to be punished. I don't remember the kid's name, but I remember his house as I went over once. I like to think that I was a kid and I didn't know any better, but I think I did.Īs I got older I realized what I had done was wrong, but it was too late to make amends for it. So when I snuck out to go to the bathroom, I went in and took the figure from his jacket. I sat in class and thought about that figure, maybe a little too much. The teacher came by and said that the kid needed to put it away, so he put it in the pocket of his jean jacket hanging from a hook in the hallway. A friend showed me this cool toy that he had, it was an orange action figure. I was in first grade at the Dracut Center School.